..Attempting to access particular odor features in an odor's absence is harder if those features were not attended during smelling. This suggests more information is available during smelling, than can be accessed after the odors removal. ..

..These findings are consistent with gustatory information ascending from tongue to cortex both ipsilaterally and contralaterally, and provide preliminary support for hemispheric gustatory specialization...

Taste and odour-induced taste perception following unilateral lesions to the anteromedial temporal lobe and the orbitofrontal cortex

..In both experiments, when an odor was named very differently on each test occasion, the only response to remain consistent was "liking." We suggest that liking reflects the most basic form of information conveyed by the olfactory system...

..It is well established that people with schizophrenia have impaired olfactory perception. However, another olfactory abnormality that occurs in schizophrenia--olfactory hallucinations (OHs)--has received almost no attention...

..Three contributory mechanisms are discussed, relating to difficulty of verification and paucity of olfactory knowledge, the role of change blindness, and restricted access consciousness in this sense...

Olfactory test performance and its relationship with the perceived location of odors

..Pathogen threat also appears to have been a highly significant and unrecognized force in shaping human culture so as to minimize infection threats. This cultural shaping process--moralization--can be co-opted to promote human health...

Discriminating the stimulus elements during human odor-taste learning: a successful analytic stance does not eliminate learning

..These results suggest that although a capacity to discriminate flavor into its elements may be necessary to support learning, whether participants experience a configural or elemental flavor representation may not...

Olfactory hallucinations in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: a phenomenological survey

..In contrast, prefrontal hypometabolism is not associated with performance on frontal lobe measures. We suggest that this is because frontal lobe neuropsychology tests may not be good measures of isolated frontal lobe functioning. ..

The impact of mediodorsal thalamic lesions on olfactory attention and flavor perception

..While the mechanism for this effect is not currently known, our findings suggest one plausible explanation for risky sexual behavior as well as having implications for the role of disgust in sexual dysfunction...

..In sum, these experiments suggest that odor naming may account for some of the difficulty reported by participants when attempting to evoke odor images; we discuss an associative basis for this effect...

..The finding of impaired perception of disgust signalled through different input domains suggests that the inability to recognise the facial expression in this population reflects a fundamental problem with disgust processing...

..This study is the first to demonstrate a relationship between impaired taste perception and the perception of odor-induced tastes and suggests that both may rely on certain common neural substrates...

..Moreover, our results suggest that this may be related to impaired regulation of energy intake via less accurate tracking of prior food intake and reduced sensitivity to hunger and satiety signals...

A scale for measuring hygiene behavior: development, reliability and validity

..G1 participants were poorer than G6 and A participants for both the Q and the QI sets. The implications of these findings for experiential accounts of odor perception and olfactory working memory are discussed...

..The authors' results suggest that where there is perceptual similarity between the RTD and its soft-drink base, these beverages may provide an easy transition into alcohol consumption for novice drinkers...

..g. racial vilification) ends, by yoking particular labels with cues that connote disease and disgust. This broadening of the model allows for stigmatization of groups with little apparent connection to disease...

The effect of appropriate and inappropriate stimulus color on odor discrimination

..In this article, these findings are reviewed and a model that attempts to account for them is proposed. Finally, the model's consistency with both neurophysiological and neuropsychological data is examined...

The influence of product packaging on young people's palatability rating for RTDS and other alcoholic beverages

Peter GatesThe National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, AustraliaAlcohol Alcohol 42:138-42. 2007

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Validating the factor structure of the Self-Report Psychopathy scale in a community sample

..Verbal memory impairment is selectively associated with left temporal lobe hypometabolism in OLE, supporting a link between neuropsychological dysfunction and remote hypometabolism in focal epilepsy...

The 1-2-3 Magic parenting program and its effect on child problem behaviors and dysfunctional parenting: a randomized controlled trial